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Re: Archiving Digital Images



Title: RE: Archiving Digital Images

This may be a situation of RTFM (Read The Fine Manual, to be polite about it!)...the better digital cameras out there offer options on the output file formats. If you take the effort to do so, you can download your file in RAW format (basically just the color channels) or TIFF format, both of which can be dealt with by PhotoShop and other tools to create secondary files like JPEGs that our web publishing friends love so well.

As for the "worthy"-ness of JPEG for long-term retention, well...if it's all you've got, then it's all you've got. Better that you take steps ahead of time to be sure you get a format that's acceptable.


Dennis Moser, MILS
Project Director, IMLS National Leadership Grant
Digital Imaging Faculty
Lee College
P.O. Box 818, Baytown, TX 77522-0818
(281)425-6819/(281)425-6557 (fax)
dmoser@lee.edu